[22159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Wed Dec 9 18:27:13 1998
To: icee@phoenix.lyle.org (Michael P. Lyle)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:03:47 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981209145546.A16108@phoenix.lyle.org> from "Michael P. Lyle" at Dec 9, 98 02:55:46 pm
From: jzeeff@verio.net (Jon Zeeff)
Reply-To: jon@zeeff.com
Is there equipment that, short of a fixed ip, tries to reassign the same
ip back to the same user? Ie, puts the ip address in a fifo but pulls it
out early if it's the same user calling back.
> > I bet Ms. Thorton never heard that TCP can preserve idle connections
> > when dial-up link is down. Yeah, dial-on-demand is such a hard thing
> > to do!
>
> Well, yes. But if you're on a dynamic IP, good luck at getting the
> answers to your packets when you call up and are assigned a new IP.